YMMV / Cannon

• Harsher in Hindsight: In the 1976 episode “Point After Death,” Cannon must clear a pro football quarterback suspected of murder. The quarterback admits to “having blackouts for the last few months…from old head injuries.” The NFL would create the Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (MTBI) Committee in 1994. The issue would become the subject of congressional hearings and civil litigation in the 21st Century.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The presence of Barbara Babcock in "The Dead Samaritan" as The Chessmaster Ruth Gardner, years before playing another (but much more amenable) cool blonde with the surname Gardner on Hill Street Blues.
  • In 1972's "The Predators" Pamela Franklin and a pre-CHiPs Robert Pine play a couple in a relationship, as they do in the 1975 Barnaby Jones episode "Murder Once Removed". on "The Predators" Pine plays a baddie while Franklin is as pure as the driven snow. On "Murder Once Removed" it's the reverse.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Mark Hamill in "Country Blues".
  • Meg Foster in "Come Watch Me Die".
  • Dabney Coleman in "Dead Lady's Tears" and "The House of Cards".
  • Martin Sheen in "The Devil's Playground", "A Flight of Hawks" and "Memo From a Dead Man".
    • Plans were made to have Sheen's character in the first two episodes, Jerry Wharton, a sidekick to Cannon, but were scrapped.
  • Richard Donner directed the episodes "Death Is a Double-Cross", "Flight Plan", "He Who Digs a Grave" and "Memo From a Dead Man".
  • Nick Nolte in "Arena of Fear".
  • Shelley Duvall in "The Seventh Grave".
  • Robert Hays in "Blood Lines".
• Stunt Casting: Joan Fontaine in "The Star."

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